The weather report for today was 100% chance of afternoon rain, so we decided to spend the day inside while we were in Mobile. Finding large enough parking spots for our truck is always a challenge, but we found a great lot about a block away from The History Museum of Mobile. Late in the afternoon, just as we were walking back to the truck, the clouds got even darker and then the rain started—in buckets. The storm created a huge traffic problem, so we found a Starbucks to get out of the congestion and work on the blog again.
We loved learning about the history of the area and the history of Mardi Gras. Then we saw some wonderful, huge dollhouses a man built for his granddaughters and his wife after he retired. Ready to explore with us?
History of Mobile
wanted to settle away from the Spanish
Made me think about how these programs helped out in the Michigan UP. I know the CCC got a generation of men in the 1930s ready for the rigors of war in the 1940s. Shipbuilding took off as WWII loomed and then found the U.S.
Notice the swinging doors that opened in the front and a windshield that folds up under the roof. We saw so many horse-drawn carriages when we were in Wisconsin, but hadn’t seen a carriage like this.
Mardi Gras
We’ve heard that the cost to be in a parade is one thing but to be royalty is that much more expensive. These gowns show why!
We’ve seen King Cake referred to in the TV show NCIS New Orleans, but didn’t know Moon Pies were involved too!
Amazing dollhouses
As I was growing up in Des Moines, Iowa, at Christmas time at our church, Westminster Presbyterian, the gym was filled with dollhouses along the walls of the gym and model trains set up in the middle. Thus started my fascination with both.
The details and research required to make these dollhouses was amazing. For this Victorian house, he went to San Francisco to study homes there.
And then lunch
